Chris Kern wrote in
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I've always despised tea with sugar in it, and so I've avoided milk as
well. But I had actually never heard of *only* putting milk in tea
until quite recently. I've been reluctant to try it, though, because
somehow I fear ruining my cup of breakfast tea by doctoring it.

I'll probably try it some weekend when I have enough time to make
another cup if the first one gets destroyed, but I'm curious -- how
much milk do people put in their tea? I assume it depends on the type
of tea involved, but are we talking a few teaspoons worth or 1/4 of
the cup?

I mostly use enough milk to bring the tea down to a nice temperature for
drinking--I like my tea fairly hot, but not scaldingly so. I seem to like
less milk than my neighborfriend (my main tea-drinking cohort). I also use
skim or 1%; she inherited the use of cream from her aunt, and these days
mainly uses powdered non-dairy creamer. I don't care for that.

If I get three cups from my pot, I usually drink the first one (if black
tea) with said amount of milk, and some Splenda (I might use sugar, but not
the "blue stuff", and never the unmentionable "pink stuff"). Sometimes I
omit the sweetener. Second cup, the tea has cooled some, so maybe a little
less milk, and almost never any sweetener after the first cup. The third
cup I usually take "black". It all depends on the tea, though. Darjeeling
I mostly drink straight, and even more so oolongs or greens, which I don't
drink too often as yet.

I would say, use a little milk, just a splash in the bottom of the cup, and
see how you like it. Then if you think you might fancy more, add more.
It's certainly much eaiser than taking some back out--well, not really, if
that just involves adding more tea.

Milk is wonderful in Assams, Keemuns, and Nilgiris I've tried, as well as
blends of these, although they also stand well on their own--particularly
the Keemuns and Nilgiris. I just finished my next-to-last bit of Keemun
Hao Ya A tonight. That was quite fine.

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